Alan Hansen

Athlete

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I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

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